Documentation for JIRA 5.0. Documentation for other versions of JIRA is available too. 
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Please follow the instructions in the general upgrading JIRA documentation.
Please also read the Important Version-Specific Upgrade Notes for any JIRA 5.0.x versions you are skipping.
The position of the Monitoring menu item to access the Database Monitoring page in JIRA moved from Administration > System to Administration > Plugins.
Hence, JIRA system administrators can now access the Database Monitoring page by selecting Administration > Plugins > Monitoring. The keyboard shortcut to access this page has not changed.
In addition to the above, please read the JIRA 5.0 Upgrade Notes and as well as the Important Version-Specific Upgrade Notes for the versions of JIRA you are skipping.